SAXTON

The first of its kind in Australia, Saxton Speakers Bureau (Est. 1965) is well known in corporate business circles as a world class Speakers bureaux. Saxton provide and manage celebrity appearances and high profile speakers, entertainers and trainers for a range of business activities and corporate events.

Established by Joan Saxton, a world champion professional public speaker, Saxton Speakers Bureau was, in 1988, acquired by Nanette and Winston Broadbent who brought with them extensive experience in the fields of management, education, public relations and computer science.

Saxton Speakers Bureau specialises in the provision of that hard to find special motivational speaker, keynote speaker, inspirational speaker or leading communicator. Saxton is synonymous with names like James Strong, Hon Bob Carr, Stella Axarlis, Roger Corbett, David Morgan AO, Hon. E. Gough Whitlam, Linda Nicholls, David Galbally QC, Dr Peter Ellyard, Hon Dr Barry Jones, Ann Sherry and Bryce Courtenay.

The current Saxton website developed in classic Microsoft ASP has been in operation since 2002. A decision was made to shift to an open source solution primarily in order to develop a search engine friendly layout, improve search engine rankings, to improve site conversions and to add more interactive functionality quickly.

Valegro was engaged to perform a full systems migration including the redesign of the website using Joomla open source Content Management System platform.

The project started during the last week of November 2009 and is scheduled to go live during February 2010.

Using data migration tools, SQL scripts and Joomla components such as sh404SEF, JomSocial and custom coded components the existing website of around 10,000 pages will be migrated, redesigned and deployed with a much anticipated exciting new look and feel consistent with the Saxton corporate brand and business strategy.

Saxton invests in the following Valegro services:

• Web Design: Joomla CMS
• Web Development: PHP, MySQL
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• Systems Consulting

Visit the Saxton website at: www.saxton.com.au